Cinetvcontest #132... The Adam Project (2022) movie review.

If you had the opportunity, would you want to turn back the hands of time? If your answer is yes, then welcome aboard. I would love such an opportunity if it ever existed as I need to reveal a lot of secrets to my younger self. One of those secrets would be telling my younger self to invest in crypto in it's early stage and holding it till it surges higher fr a profit.

This week's cinetvcontest is on a favourite time movie. There are lots of fabulous movies on time out there like in time and even 24hours but I chose this movie because of it's science inclination and the heart to heart experience I felt was being expressed by the actors.

The movie I chose to review for this week's contest is titled The Adam's project. The lead role was played by Ryan Reynolds. The movie was released in 2022 as a sci-fi action cum comedy film.

Synopsis

Adam Reed (Reynolds) is a fighter pilot from the future (2050), where time travel became possible. Stealing a time travel jet in order to go back in time and prevent the kidnap and death of his current wife Laura, he had to travel back to the past (2018) and stop time travel from ever being invented or discovered and that meant going back to face his father who was always too busy for him while he was growing up.

Coming face to face with his twelve year old self, fighting off an array of dystopian robotic soldiers with one mission and that was to kill Adam Reed, encountering his wife who faked her death and trying to destroy the particulate accelerator located under Sprain technologies, Adam's Reed was in for a heck of a ride.

If not for Dorian trying to monopolize time travel invented by Adam's father Louis Reed, Laura would not have had to sacrifice herself in order to save Adam and the whole chase game would not have happened in the first place.

Fortunately, Louis Reed agreed to help them destroy the particulate accelerator and all the Adam's joined forces. In the end, Dorian was killed in the past which caused her future self to be erased, leading to victory for the Adams.

What I liked about the movie

I like Reynolds' emotional outbursts and expressions in this movie. I could hardly believe he was the same guy who cares Deadpool. I also like the plot of the movie centering on love yet still touching real aspects of the human psyche like emotional imbalance, low self-esteem, teenage mood swings and more

The action scenes were also great and the dystopian guns were really believable. Though meeting your parallel self is not advisable in time travel, I liked that the past and future Adams were not harmed rather there was bonding and truths revealed.

What I disliked

I wanted the actions scenes to come first but we got a slow part of the future Adams meeting his twelve year old past self and doing things to convince his past self that they were one and the same.

Memorable scene

The scene I liked the most was when after everything that happened to them, 2050 Adam Reed realized that although he disliked his past self where he was a victim of bullying plus being asthmatic and all, he realized that that part of his life was the best part in his timeline. That resonated with me cos I don't really like past self and the things I did plus the many wrong decisions that I made but looking back and thinking deeply, I discovered that my past younger self had the most fun. I was dating and bold, ready to take up any challenge no matter how dumb it was. That part of my life was actually quite fun.

I rate this movie a good 8/10 stars because I enjoyed the silly humour, action and time mumbo jumbo it represented.